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RE Active - Foreword
RE Active - Foreword
by SPCK - Jenny Gray
Foreword I am now the proud grandparent of four superb little children. I love them to bits and long for them to have the best things life has to give. So an underlying question that’s always hanging around in my mind is, ‘How will these little ones find faith?’ Fortunately, they…
Lent 1 Sermon/Reflection
Lent 1 Sermon/Reflection
by Christine Dutton
Reflection on Luke 4: 1 - Jesus is led into the Wilderness These reflections are simply my own response to the Luke passage reflecting on Jesus entering the wilderness as a time to prepare for his ministry and to ask whether by adopting retreating and reflecting as a model we can…
Lent 1 Hymn: You are the Son of God
Lent 1 Hymn: You are the Son of God
by Liz Griffiths
Hymn based on Temptations narrative (Based on Matthew 4:1-11) for First Sunday of Lent The Tempter: “You are the Son of God. These stones will meet your need. With pow’r divine, you can from dust give bread the world to feed.” Jesus: “The Word of God goes out and in my flesh now …
Open with God Book - May - Christian Aid Week (week 20)
Open with God Book - May - Christian Aid Week (week 20)
by Christine Odell
May – Christian Aid Week (week 20) Calendar of Prayers Reading Psalm 146.5-9 Our God, we praise and thank you for the abundant love you pour out upon us: for giving us this world to provide for our needs; for giving us free will so that we can choose to express our humanity by lo…
Open with God Book - May - International Day of the Family (May 15)
Open with God Book - May - International Day of the Family (May 15)
by Christine Odell
May – International day of the Family (15 May) Calendar of Prayers Reading Ephesians 3.14-19 God, our heavenly Father and Mother, we thank you for families: for the family of humankind rich in its diversity; for the family of the church, sisters and brothers in Jesus; for our own…
Open with God Book - March - World Environment Week
Open with God Book - March - World Environment Week
by Christine Odell
March – World Environment Week (week 10) Calendar of Prayers Reading Psalm 8.3-9 Ask people to think about how they have experienced the beauty of creation recently, and to share those sights and sounds. Then ask them what they have seen or heard that spoilt creation’s beauty. Du…
Open with God Book - November - Children in Need
Open with God Book - November - Children in Need
by Christine Odell
November – “Children in Need” Calendar of Prayers Reading Nehemiah 5.1-6 God, our father and our mother, we thank you for the gift of children; bringing love, with all its joys and demands, to their families, hope and challenge to their communities, and new life and insights to t…
Open with God Book - May - Amnesty International Day (28 May)
Open with God Book - May - Amnesty International Day (28 May)
by Christine Odell
May – Amnesty International Day (28 May) Calendar of Prayers Reading Isaiah 61.1-3 God of justice, giver of courage, we praise you for the strength you give us in the face of evil. We praise you that, just like a candle flame that continues to shine through the bars of a prison,.…
Open with God Book - November - All Saints' Day (1 November)
Open with God Book - November - All Saints' Day (1 November)
by Christine Odell
November – All Saints Day (1 November) Calendar of Prayers Reading Revelation 7.9-17 God of the living and the dead, we praise and thank you that we belong to that great multitude which no-one can count, who worship, love and serve you...
Salvation
Salvation
by Mark Orriss
Digital print. A4 in size. New life through the blood of Christ. Image suitable for use in a PowerPoint slide (see below) PowerPoint Slide Size- This image is full size which is 2000 x 1414 pixels and 564KB The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- Reduce the image size to 102…
Reflection: Impossibilities
Reflection: Impossibilities
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Impossibilities When Alice went Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen told her that in her youth she had managed to ‘believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’ She was an amateur when compared with Abram, or Abraham, as he’d become known when his…
Prayer/Reflection: Of whom shall I be afraid?